TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1146, 1 March 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Feb. 26

The Right Hon. Sir H. B. W. Brand, ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, has been raised to the peerage under the title of Viscount Hampden In the House of Commons to day Mr A. W, Peel, the Liberal M.P. for Warwick, was elected Speaker unopposed.

A credit for half a million sterling, to cover the expenses of the British expedition to the Soudan, is shortly re he asked for by Government in the House of Commons.

No clue to the perpetrators of the explosion which occurred last night at the Victoria railway station has yet been discovered. The police have in their possession, however, the Gladstone bag which was burst open by the explo sion of dynamite, and found in the wrecked cloak-room. Mr Gladstone has submitted the name of a new Governor for Victoria to Lord Derby fcr approval. Feb. 27. Lord Carlingford’s Bill for the exclusion of stock from places where disease is believed to exist was passed by the House of Lords last night. Two more garrisons in the Southern Soudan have been captured by the rebels. Two regiments of the Egyptian troops have been ordered to proceed to Assousan. The fidelity of the native garrison in Cairo is distrusted. The two battalions of infantry that received orders on the Bth instant to proceed from Aldershot to Malta and Gibraltar, have embarked at Portsmouth for their respective destinations. The battalion that is proceeding to Gibraltar will replace the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment (56th foot) which recently left that static.n for Alexandria.

The South Australian gunboat Protector will make a trial trip in the middle of April, and will sail soon afterwards. Her guns have already been tried, and proved to be excellent.

Russia has joined Prince Bismarck’s League, Great interest attaches in Beilin to the warm reception accorded to the Grand Duke Michael and General Gourka. Cairo, Feb. 26. A detachment of 1000 British troops has occupied the fort near Trinkitat. The enemy, who were in the neighborhood fled, It is expected a battle wilj be fought on Thursday at El Teb, where the rebels are strongly posted. Parh, Feb. 27.

It is announced that Admiral Miott has been appointed to supersede Admiral Galiber as commander of the French fleet in Malagasy waters. Hong Kong, Feb. 27.

Latest intelligence to hand from Ton quin announces that the French Com mander has mossed the troops whico recently arrived, and that an immediate advance will be made upon Bacniuli with the whole force.

New Yore, Feb. 26. The first direct cargo of Australian wool arrived at Boston to-day.

The New Zealand Shipping Company has received the following cablegram : “ Loudon, February 26 British King has arrived, all well, at Plymouth. Otaki has arrived ; all well.”

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Adelaide, Feb. 28. In the House of Assembly last, night, the debate commenced on the moth n for an address to the Federal Council. In the course of the discussion the Opposition members left the House in a body, and there being consequently no quorum the matter was shelved. The prorogation of Parliament is fixed for to-day, and the fate of the motion is therefore uncertain. Sydney, Feb, 28. The death is announced of Dr Charles Badliam, Professor of Classics in the University of Sydney, aged 71. The funeral will take place to morrow. All the Government offices will be dosed as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Professor. Brisbane, Feb. 28. In the Legislative Assembly last night, a resolution was passed requiring that the Courier, a newspaper published here, he prosecuted for libelling mem-

bers of the blouse in an article commenting upon the proceedings of the Election Quilifiation Committee.